Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi_write

From: Wim Van Sebroeck
Date: Fri Jul 11 2008 - 07:59:14 EST


Hi All,

> This patch is correct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Mark Rustad wrote:
> >From: Mark Rustad <MRustad@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >This patch corrects the handling of write operations to the IPMI watchdog
> >to work as intended by returning the number of characters actually
> >processed. Without this patch, an "echo V >/dev/watchdog" enables the
> >watchdog if IPMI is providing the watchdog function.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <MRustad@xxxxxxxxx>

I'll add this to he linux-2.6-watchdog tree this evening so that Linus can pull.

Greetings,
Wim.

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